| 6 Jul 2024 |
 rfvizarra | In reply to @adham-omran:matrix.org
Reaper is not expensive for a DAW, well worth the investment in my opinion In your experience, what makes a DAW better than another one? I'm so new to this I don't have a minimal criteria to compare them | 08:58:03 |
 bandithedoge | In reply to @adham-omran:matrix.org
How does the Zrythm documentation and tutorial landscape compare to REAPER and Ardour? it's not too bad, the official manual is pretty good but in general i've found zrythm to be a lot more intuitive than ardour if you've used other daws | 08:58:54 |
| bandithedoge | In reply to @rfvizarra:matrix.org
In your experience, what makes a DAW better than another one? I'm so new to this I don't have a minimal criteria to compare them really it all comes down to what gets you to your desired result the quickest | 08:59:26 |
| bandithedoge | there's no "best" daw for everyone so just ignore the holy daw wars that producers love | 08:59:52 |
| rfvizarra | I guess that in my case having an intuitive interface will help to reach my goal | 09:00:39 |
 @adham-omran:matrix.org | In reply to @rfvizarra:matrix.org
In your experience, what makes a DAW better than another one? I'm so new to this I don't have a minimal criteria to compare them Documentation and tutorials are a massive comparison point for a new-comer, being older leads them to being more mature and having a more robust community.
Every DAW is different, for what you spoke about as a use case, REAPER will get you what you want the quickest, nothing beats double clicking to add a track, load a plugin, arm the track with your midi controller and have at it
My advice is to start with REAPER, check its extensive tutorials over at reaper.fm, and if after a week you want to check something else, hop and try to redo your workflow and see which you like best
| 09:00:56 |
| bandithedoge | try out a bunch of daws and see which workflow works for you best, just don't turn it into a religion | 09:01:58 |
| bandithedoge | reaper is often considered a good beginner's daw but it has a great scripting engine with a big community | 09:03:55 |
| bandithedoge | (plus you can use all of its features for free if you don't mind waiting 5 seconds to close the dialog box) | 09:04:32 |
| rfvizarra | Cool!, I have some thing to try and learn!. Thank you guys for your help! | 09:05:48 |
| rfvizarra | I'm going to try Reaper, Ardour and zrythm | 09:06:29 |
| bandithedoge | have fun then | 09:06:50 |
| bandithedoge | also check out unfa's youtube channel, he has a lot of great tutorials for ardour and linux audio in general | 09:07:20 |
| @adham-omran:matrix.org | Have fun, as bandithedoge , experiment and try them all, I recommend for a week each to give it a fair chance and enjoy your time! | 09:08:35 |
| @adham-omran:matrix.org | * Have fun, as bandithedoge recommended, experiment and try them all, I recommend for a week each to give it a fair chance and enjoy your time! | 09:08:44 |
| rfvizarra | Thank you!! | 09:09:03 |
| rfvizarra | In reply to @bandithedoge:matrix.org
also check out unfa's youtube channel, he has a lot of great tutorials for ardour and linux audio in general Lot's of interesting video titles... This is going to be a rabbit hole | 09:10:48 |
 Rampoina | if you just want to open pianoteq as a plugin you could also use carla | 09:11:00 |
| Rampoina | no need for a DAW to just play | 09:11:13 |
| bandithedoge | In reply to @rfvizarra:matrix.org
Lot's of interesting video titles... This is going to be a rabbit hole just like nix... you'll learn to love it though | 09:11:29 |
| rfvizarra | In reply to @rampoina:matrix.org
if you just want to open pianoteq as a plugin you could also use carla Didn't know that. Thanks for the hint! | 09:11:52 |
| bandithedoge | In reply to @rampoina:matrix.org
if you just want to open pianoteq as a plugin you could also use carla not sure about pianoteq but many plugins also have standalone versions | 09:12:07 |
| rfvizarra | Pianoteq has a standalone application, but it doesn't run under NixOS | 09:12:32 |
| Rampoina | yeah but the lv2 was suggested to make it easier | 09:12:39 |
| rfvizarra | that I why I was looking for to install the Pianoteq Nixos package | 09:12:48 |
| rfvizarra | * that is why I was looking for to install the Pianoteq Nixos package | 09:13:12 |
| bandithedoge | In reply to @rfvizarra:matrix.org
Pianoteq has a standalone application, but it doesn't run under NixOS dynamically linked executables compiled by someone else won't "just work" on nixos | 09:13:43 |
| rfvizarra | That I learnt the ward way :D | 09:14:16 |
| bandithedoge | take a look at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Binaries | 09:14:49 |
| bandithedoge | i recommend https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-alien if you just want to quickly run something | 09:15:29 |
